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An arresting problem

I have always had a slightly uneasy relationship with our Boys in Blue.

I suppose it started with my first arrest when I was six. It was a trumped up charge, and somewhat soured my attitude towards the law. I mean, how the fuck was I to know she was going to start undressing just as I peered through her window?

I suppose you could class my relationship with the Gardaí as a sort of hate hate relationship. I think that about covers the spectrum?

Anyway, things changed when I met Herself.

You see, her father was a sergeant. That was a mistake. When it came to getting married, it was less a case of a shotgun marriage as a case of ‘marry my daughter, you little prick, or that stash of marijuana will see you down for ten years’. In retrospect, I should have gone with the arrest, as I would have been out and free after five. As it is, now I’m stuck for life.

Then we went and bought a house in the suburbs. I fucking hated that place, and for eighteen years, I missed the mountains. What was worse, we had the local sergeant living one side of us, an inspector on the other and an ordinary Garda living across from us. It was a fucking nightmare. Have you any idea how difficult it is to live by the law for eighteen years? It cost me a fucking fortune in bribes. Bastards.

I see now they are talking about going on strike.

I’m all for it.

It won’t make the blindest bit of a difference to the constant crime wave we have to endure, as the criminals ignore the Gardaí anyway.

It will mean the rest of us can carry on our lives without being harassed and hassled at every turn though.

I watched Sharon the news last night, and our esteemed Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern was on ranting about the proposed strike. For those of you who don’t know him, he is the progressive type who brought in our new wonderful blasphemy laws, just as every other country was scrapping them.

I gather he is not too pleased with the idea of a strike? He called it “an affront to democracy” which is fucking rich for a minister who’s government was hammered in the last elections and that refused to acknowledge they no longer have a mandate.

Anyhow, he donned his jackboots and told the Gardaí that if they went on strike that every one of them would be arrested.

Lafsword – There is a Catch 22 problem here. If you are deputised, You have to be a Garda [otherwise you don’t have the powers of arrest] in which case you will promptly have to go on strike? As for the Bank – join the fucking queue.

Interesting point about the drivers. All those poor TDs are going to have to drive themselves [or more likely, hire chauffeurs at vast expense?]

Oh Christ now old people will be beaten in their home’s for their pension money while our beloved guardians of the free people (and totaly not glorified tax men harassing the average citizen hell no) garda sit in a heated station house doing nothing………………not much change there then on the plus side no fines for accidental scratching your ass with out a permit or haveing the audacity of haveing a broken light on your car. I think they will be quite surprised how little anyone gives a rat’s ass about how much the offical group of thugs get payed for extorting protection money.